| While most buyers and sellers on internet auction sites | | | | Steps to avoid online auction fraud |
| are honest, there is always the threat of online auction | | | | 1) Check seller's feedback |
| fraud. | | | | One of the best ways to judge a seller's honesty is to |
| Auction sites have had instances of sellers posting | | | | check his or her feedback. Most buyers will give |
| pictures of items for sale, only to include in extremely | | | | feedback on a sale, rating the seller in the seller's |
| small print that buyers are only bidding for the photo | | | | Feedback Profile. If the feedback is negative, it will be |
| rather than the item itself. When the photo arrives in | | | | very difficult for that seller to buy or sell anything on |
| the post and not the product, buyers are obviously | | | | that auction site in future. Check the seller's feedback |
| outraged. | | | | and if it is not overwhelmingly positive, do not buy. |